Nas Backs Tarantino The Slave Trader

January 18th, 2013

A Rapper’s Stockholm Syndrome?

Nas seems to be shelving his previous pro-black stance, granting Tarantino the green light to capitalize on slavery — and the N-word. The ‘These Are Our Heros‘ rapper says the ‘Django: Unchained‘ filmmaker has done nothing more than create art, adding Spike Lee’s rant against Tarantino is unwarranted.

Here’s what Nas had to say:

“I didn’t see what the big fuss was about. It’s a movie by Tarantino, why should we be surprised if the movie is raw?

He’s one of the greatest filmmakers of our generation, and we don’t go there to see anything less than rawness. He’s an artist, and artists have to express themselves.”

Does Nas play both sides of the fence – often speaking on how difficult it is for a black man in America, only to later defend a Caucasian’s use of the N-word? Of course! Don’t believe me.. Ask Gwyneth Paltrow.

This movie was not that good for all this controversy. The best part of the movie was Samuel L Jackson. I thought I was going to fall out my chair when the “massa” got hurt and he started crying. Too funny.

Yep and yes. You done said. We either degraded or shucking and jiving like Cuba Gooding in the Jerry Maguire movie. He got his Oscar and embarrassed black people the whole world over with his Uncle Tom Oscar speech. Cooning to the max.

@crazychris-here is my viewpoint on your list. Too short-what he really needs is his ass whooped for those woman hating records. Pam grier-applause for being a black female star at a time when many black actresses couldn’t get a job! And she always killed all the the white men who raped and drugged her! Danny glover-an oscar for giving a performance that none of his prior work hinted he could give. Eartha kitt-lessons on how to be sexy cause she did it for years and she didn’t need the catwoman outfit to do it. Eazy e-he paid the ultimate price for his whoring and rap tomfoolery. Kerry washington-recognition for being an underrated actress and if john mayer is to be believed a lifetime supply of chapstick and mouthwash.

You people need to get a life. You fools were more than likely singing and rapping the song “Niggas In Paris” and a movie about slavery is more than likely gone to have the “N” word in it. Stop trying to use Nas as a scapegoat to hate.

Exactly! Stop using the word in your everyday vocabulary then maybe whites wouldn’t be able to capitalize on it! The funny thing is you don’t hear whites saying ” what up cracker ” or Chinese people saying ” how u doing chink ” or Hispanics saying ” that’s my spic “. We are the only race that took a derogatory word used to humiliate and degrade our race and use it to greet one another with it. People that use the n word all the time is no different than Sam Jacksons character in Django. By the way, it was a great movie and people need to stop getting all bent out of shape over a fuckin word. If you can support rap artists degrading our black women and putting garbage into our kids minds than watching a movie for entertainment is nothing. I think these rap stars are worse than any Quentin Tarentino movie ever made!!!!

White people in this country was calling us ni-gger before we could even speak their english language.

They still call us ni-gger whether we like it or not and whether we call ourselves ni-gger or not..Its their language and they are our kidnaper hosts and they make the rules…You give us way too much power over this situation…They forced us to come here with them and they tortured us until we submitted.

i agree 100%. Tranatino used nigger respective to the context of the film. Consider this, Tarantino made a movie where a black man went through hell trying to save his BLACK brown-skin wife, stood up to the white slave owner and his Uncle Ruckus side kick, got revenge(which was my favorite aspect of the film), and Rode off into the sunset w/his black brown skinned wife. I saw this movie at a suburban DC theatre where Young black men felt a sense of empowerment seeing a black man handle his business and protect his BLACK wife. I don’t have a problem w/that.
Black people better stop worrying about shyt that don’t matter.

@Kee, would it have made a difference if Django had rode off with his BLACK light skinned wife?

Uncle Luke, now Nas defending Tarantino and Dick Gregory went off on Spike Lee, calling him a thug and everything. I liked Dick Gregory’s take on the movie, Jacky should post that, but I didn’t see nothing wrong with Spike Lee voicing his opinion, I am no fan of his, but that was his right.

@Aries
DJango Riding Into The Sunset W/A Light Skinned Black Woman Would Have Been Typical
I Agree W/U Opinions Are A dime A Dozen I HaveNo Problem W/SPike Lee Expressing His.
#Sorry For The FonT. The Predictive teXt Is Bananas

@DEEP N THA WOODS-Actually angela was nominated for best actress for what’s love…but she lost. She didn’t get nominated for waiting to exhale cause according to all the major film critics she would have won.

I dont think Nas is trying to play both sides of the fence, I just believe he’s stating his honest opinion, regardless of the topic. But what I dont care for is his halfway endorsement of QT. -side eye-, but then again, QT is famous for a reason, and we all do know who he is and are familiar with him. Whether we like him of not, which most of us dont, he is a tremendously popular and world renowned Director. None of us can deny that.

I agree with only half of what Nas said, you do go into a QT movie expecting raw. However, I do NOT believe he is one of the greatest filmmakers,That is my opinion, though..someone else may see differently..he’s not playing both sides with this comment though..personally I think you’re reaching

Who died and made Nas a Mensa candidate? He is an 8th grade drop out who just had his wages garnished by the IRS… for back taxes. He obviously is in no position to co-sign on anything or be an expert on anything except for what we are trying to avoid. He needs to put his own oxygen mask on first.

Plus Tarantino may get a pass for this Django mess but if you have seen any of his other 20 yrs of work… its N-Word Central.. has Sam Jackoson cooning his crack head ass off… he’s just an ignorant hillbilly white boy from Tennessee who clowns black folks right in their faces. He just dresses it up real pretty in this movie with Jamie and Kerry.

Well, “good news” everyone, the dolls are out of production. There was too many protests asking for them to stop these dolls from being made. The studio also called and asked for the dolls to stop being made.

Tarantino is one of the greatest filmmakers. I stand by him. People on here commenting about Tarantino probably never seen a Tarantino movie, never heard of him until now too. They also read a few articles and think this movie is about SLAVERY, IT IS NOT. It involves slavery but it’s just part of the atmosphere this isn’t a f’king
“Roots the movie: by Tarantino” movie that a lot of ya’ll seem to think this movie is. It is “Kill Bill with slavery being the surroundings”.

I would never spend my hard earn money supporting any movie with the N-word being used in excess of 200 times. That’s N-word over kill. Never supported any of these so-called rappers that degrade black women and use the N-word. Never have and I never will

I see QT was right when he said that Black people understood Djanglo. He knew that black people would support the film regardless. Oh! Well, it is what it is.

nas i dont know about somtimes its hard to tell rather he for the blacks or against the blacks.with nas u can never tell but i can say django is a good film to me tarrantino has obsession with blacks and black males and violence i would never sit up there and say its okay in my book for whites and not just white non whites and non blacks its okay for them to use the word i dont think its okay for blacks to use the word.but at the end of the day there gonna use it im against anything that has black looking ugly or bring blacks down to and animal cause that basically what we were considered back then in the slavery days all the way up threw it all.to me niqqa means ugly beast nasty disgusting cursed and low life wraped up in one and i dont and will never identify with the word ever!

For the record, I stopped supporting JZ and Kanye when it was obvious they had gon over to the dark side and weren’t ever planning on comin back….not everyone was singing along to ‘negroes in paris’. It wasn’t that great of a song & the occult symbolism in everything these two do nowdays makes me actually loathe them. I can’t comment on Django w/ any real intelligence cuz I haven’t seen it. I like Tarrentino’s other movies because they are edgy, violent and hilarious in a dark way. Django might be crossing the line for me, not sure if I would want to support Quentin’s latest effort. I MIGHT watch it on bootleg, but it would have to be someone else’s bootleg. And I’d have to have some liquor to sip while I’m viewing it.

TRIUNE SYMBOLS, CROWLEY WORSHIP, THE WHOLE MIXTAPE WITH BEATLES SAMPLES WITH THE BACKMASKING MURDER MURDER JESUS THING OFF REVOLUTION 9 A SONG PAUL MCCARTNEY FELT SHOULD BE LEFT OFF THE WHITE ALBUM FOR BEING TOO SATANIC.

JAY MADE THE BLACK ALBUM SYMBOLIZING SATAN AND THE DARK arts like magic.

I felt the same way you did a non but my mother told me it was a good movie so I went to see it and that shit was funny as hell. I promise you. I didn’t get a sellout moment, I can see why Leonardo dicaprio said he hated his character now wait till you see his little speech about the black people and white people brain. I’m telling y’all the shit was funny, the dude from Miami vice was funny as hell everybody was funny. That white dude that got the award deserved it because he was the shit in the movie.

But why would I waste energy being continually upset when its said all over the Jews media outlets when you turn on the TV…tURN the channel and watch the Discovery Channel or some program that is not offending you….Turn the TV off, or simply dont by the DVD or CD.

Why would you want me to spend my life being upset over things tht I have no power over…I only have control over what is being said in my home…I dont have power over what Viacom Corporation presents via their employees….My only power in that situation is to shun it and not give it any energy and give energy to what I want to accomplish in life.

What Felicia said! All Day.. we need to stop using it…and tell Puffy, Jay Z and all those other other mofos to take a seat. They are the modern version of the AFricans that sold their own to slave traders. No self-respecting black person should be buying rap music or supporting ignorance and “ghetto” culture.

I’m not even clicking on links about people in that game on this site anymore. Sorry Jacky, I love you but I’m not supporting anyone like Shawty Lo or anyone of that elk on any platform.

I dont care if Tarrantino puts the word nigga in his script 2000x. Its his movie , he can do and say as he pleases. Its the white folks language. Its their word. They can say it anytime they please. Kanye West and Jay Z can say it 2000x in their music..More power to them. Free Will.

My point is that you dont have to pay to see their movies if you dont like it and you dont have to pay to buy Niggas in Paris, if you dont like it.

The end….Its a win-win…
We cant make anyone black , white, red, green from saying what they want to say..That right is protected under the Constitution. That protects Tarrantino, Nas, Sambo Jackson and the Jigga Man…
At the same time, they dont have a Constitutional Right to your greenbacks either…

Wasn’t this the same fool that publicly defended Gwyneth Paltrow?? This movie was branded a love story, yet Tarantino felt the need to base it during the most horrific era in history for black people. Nothing romantic about that time and I doubt our ancestors would be amused.

They did the same thing with Titanic—horrible tragedy yet hollywood romanticized it w/ 2 attractive popular young stars in the lead. I read the families of the victims/survivors were shocked and upset at the making of that movie, but it was overshadowed by the film’s huge success.

People can be brainwashed into liking something hideous if the elements are appealing enough to a particular group. Tarantino is good at that. He purposely made this film b/c he knew it would make money. Not many westerns w/black characters–so why not base it in slavery where the black man becomes an avenger. Eventhough the subject matter is fucked up—the black guy gets to be a hero so people will excuse it & be entertained.

And sistas will love it since Django fights for the love of a black woman. omg! smdh. How relevant at a time when many black women & men seem divided. We’ll just ignore the slave dolls he tried to sell & nigger being said 108 times. Quentin is some where on the French Riviera laughing his ass off, all the way to the bank. This shit did not portray history accurately, it was some shit he made up to sell tickets.

I like Dick Gregory and even though his defense of this flick was disturbing—I’ll give him a pass since he’s near senility. The rest of em just want to be next in line for a role in one of Quentin’s films. And Spike I never believed was jealous. Didn’t Quentin do a cameo role in his film Girl 6? yes he did.

Felicia & Lauren: Newsflash! Not all black people use the ‘n’ word. I myself have never used it because I’ve ALWAYS found it to be repulsive. So don’t speak in general about ‘all black people’ because some black people don’t and won’t speak that way. Do all he black people YOU know say it? Maybe you yourself feel that you use it too much. If that’s the case, maybe you ought to broaden your circle of friends, or make a personal effort to broaden your own vocabulary. Don’t include ‘everybody’ in your blanket statements though. Plenty of us don’t contribute to that particular problem.

I was raised never hearing the “n” word…. But it wasn’t till l moved to Texas that l heard it for the first time. I knew then, as l know now, it was no word to b repeated. However, l find it the choice of bk ppl to use it as they see fit. It’s amazing though to hear it used in terms of endearment. The word actually works among bk ppl & only bk ppl, cuz like I said to a wht man months ago, “Bk ppl can use it anyway they see fit, wht men have no right to use it… PERIOD…cuz when they say the word, it’s usually not used in terms of endearment, besides ur ppl gave bk ppl that word & out of respect it is not up for debate…Period!” Btw, l saw Django twice & as painful as it was to watch, u couldn’t help but root for him, because he overcame, got even & didn’t die in the end….. Its about time! Don’t ya think? Not enough movies made in defense for bk men… Plus we get a lesson in our greatest tragedy in American History. The movie has a soul & the silver lining is, it was made & done by someone who cares about bk tragedy & triumph. Well worth an Oscar my friends.

Who else was going to make a movie of this caliber showing niggas kill krakkas? Where are all the black film makers who make movies anywhere remotely close to this? People always fighting the wrong war because they don’t think things through and when someone says something they jump on the first bandwagon that sound right. Quentin Tarantino is probably the only dude that would make a movie like this.. You better enjoy it because you wont see it again. As for the n-word issue who gives a fuck? The controversy has made the movie gross close to 100million already if not more. White people enjoyed hearing the word nigga and black folk enjoyed seeing them racist krakkas get shot. SMART SHIT QUENTIN

The only viable remedy I can see about black people having control over what other people say, is to create your own GATED COMMUNITIES, where you create a binding contract that specifies an agreed upon code of conduct of its residents as being acceptable or unacceptable behavior…People who would like to be apart of said gated commmunity can ban the n-word from their GATED COMMUNITY as a part of their bylaws of accepted conduct with penalty or explusion…

tHATS something anybody can do and the Mormons, the Amish and the Jews have created such communities very successfully…

But I dont have control over what some private corporation like CBS puts out on their music CD’s..
We dont need to waste energy on that crap…Just dont bring it into your homes and start there…IF YOU AND OTHER LIKE MINDED PEOPLE DECIDE, you’ve had enough and want to create a gated community where everyone is in agreement on how you think its best to raise your children, then you are free under the Constitution to live where and how you please.

Now shut the fuck up about “yall dont be getting’ mad when you hear black people say it”

As far as I know, black people are afforded the same rights of free speech as any other American and I cant stop black people from saying whatever the fuck they want to say, so what makes you think I can stop white people from saying whatever the fuck they want to say.

wHY would I waste my time and energy on what others are doing when we have so much work to do ourselves?

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